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BOOK BINDING BAND.

Patented June 28, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

GEORGE HUETHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOOK-BlNDlNG BAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,520, dated June 28, 1887. Application filed February 25, 1Ei8fi. Serial No. 193,239. (No molel.)

I0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE HUETHER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Book-Binding Band, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a woven book-binding band possessing the requisite strength, stiffness, and uniformity for its purpose, to take the place of the parchment or rawhide now in common use, which is unreliable, as it loses strength with age, and is irregular in thickness and weak in places, which cannot be detected by ordinary inspection, and is expensive.

My invention consists of a book-binding hand woven of hempen cords as the warp, withafilling of fine cotton or other fine thread, as hereinafter full y described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a part of a book having my new binding-band applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the band bentto illustrate its stiffness; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of apart of the band showing its structure.

A represents mynew woven book-binding band, to which the leaves of the book are bound .Fig. 3. The hands after being removed from v the loom are stiffened with starch or other material, so that when bent they willstand at any desired position, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, which is necessary to avoid stretching the bands or drawing them taut when they are secured to the leaves of the book, and so the bands will not wrinkle, which would be fatal to a good binding.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentv As a new and improved article of manufacture, a book-binding band formed of the heavy twisted warp-cords b, bound or woven close together by the fine filling-threads c, substantially as described.

GEORGE HUETHER.

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